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http://dx.doi.org/10.12673/jant.2019.23.1.90

Measurement of Communication Performance for Application of LPWA in Industrial Field  

Kwon, Hyuk (Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
Jin, Kyoung-Bog (Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
Oh, Chang-Heon (Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
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Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology / v.23, no.1, 2019 , pp. 90-96 More about this Journal
Abstract
LPWA is a cost-effective and time-saving technology with wide coverage. However, the LPWA is an ISM band that uses UHF radio waves, and its performance is very poor indoors because of its strong linearity. But, because of the possibility of achieving high performance compared to other communication in the room, this paper has studied the indoor communication performance by applying LoRa in LPWA technologies. After installing the data receiving module on the 4th floor, the transmission module was placed at the end of the building from the same floor to the 1st floor, and the data was collected. As a results, it installed on the 1st floor can be collected data with 98 ~ 99% probability, and the lowest RSSI is about -116dBm. Thus, considering the specification of LoRa with a maximum reception sensitivity -136dBm when the spreading factor is 12, the application of LPWA in the industrial field can be fully considered.
Keywords
LPWA; Industrial field; wireless data transmission; Industrial 4.0; Internet of things;
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